The owner of a Townsend-based construction company pled guilty to 27 counts of failure to pay wages and will serve three years of probation and pay nearly $18,000 in restitution.
State Attorney General Martha Coakley‘s office began an investigation into Ashby resident Jeremy Ethier and his company Apex Construction of Townsend after employees filed complaints with the AG’s Fair Labor Division in 2007 and 2008.
The complainants alleged that they were not paid for work they did at private residences between Sept. 2006 and Jan. 2007. The division found that the two complainants had not been paid for 27 pay periods.
Ethier and Apex were charged individually and pled not guilty last summer, but changed their pleas to guilty Tuesday.
